Drinabarnes - Drina Barnes

This is Sam Wilson

Sam Wilson likes his personal space

This is Bucky Barnes

Buck Barnes also likes Sam Wilson's personal space

Insp (x)

How is that so hot omfg

Did you know they could do that?

No.

SEBASTIAN STAN as Bucky Barnes in THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021). Dir. by Kari Skogland.

Episode 4: The Whole World is Watching.

Omg omg omg. It all makes so much more sense when you realise it's not social anxiety but a fear of bring perceived.

Why do you feel more comfortable with a long coat and a mask as opposed to summer clothes?

Why do you DESPISE taking pictures? Especially if it's someone else and not you taking them.

Why do you feel like you have to stop doing whatever it was you were doing when someone passes by?

Why don't you want to tell anyone how leisurely you go about your day, taking a nap, going for a snack, sitting on your phone playing games etc. because you know they will comment on it and even though it's not negative or mockery it's still feels like you've been perceived?

Why can't you make eye contact? Why can you do it only if the other person is looking away but the second when they look at you you stop listening and when you're the one speaking you can't bear to look at them because you know their eyes are on you and they are perceiving you?

Why don't you want to dress excessively or wear nicer clothes? Because you will stand out

People mistake you for shy because you don't speak often, but it's really the fear of drawing attention to yourself more than it is the things you actually say, isn't it?

Why do you hate overpopulated areas even when no one is speaking? BUT you still feel more comfortable when more than one person is in the room (but not too many!) so that the burden of being perceived is directed on someone else and you can safely lay back just observing the scene.

It's all a defence mechanism

They need to create a new Oscar category just for Sebastian Stan's devastatingly expressive eyes

I remember a while ago there were several metas talking about Bucky being right-handed (which he then confirms in TFATWS) while the Winter Soldier is left-handed, usually using this scene as proof:

And maybe even this:

But recently I saw several gif sets of Bucky on the train right before the fall (one of which I’ll reblog after this) and look:

He’s moving the gun between his left hand and right hand interchangeably, even when the right arm is not injured. In a later scene, he takes down the trooper with a single shot with left-handed aim — so he’s no slouch on that side. He then goes back to using his right hand when he picks up the shield.

On the converse, the Winter Soldier also uses his right hand and left hand interchangeably, notably in that scene:

In fact I think if you do an overall tally of how both Bucky and the Winter Soldier reach for their weapons — whether that’s a rocket launcher or a gun or knives — you’ll find that the majority of the time it’s in their right hand (just a quick GIF search would prove this). But the times they do use it in their left hand, they are still dangerously competent with it.

So I think Bucky (and the Winter Soldier) is right-hand dominant as he says, but he’s learned to use his left hand competently as a shooter before became the Winter Soldier. He’s then turned it into a useful skill to throw off his opponents.

Up until this point he’s been trying to stab Steve with his right hand, but Steve keeps blocking it with his shield. When Bucky drops the knife into his left hand, Steve’s attention follows the knife and Bucky instead uses his right hand to punch Steve in the head.

I think another part of the “Winter Soldier is left-handed” thought comes from the fact he often uses the left arm for brute force tasks - like ripping off doors from cars and helicopters, and punching into cement.

For most of us, our dominant hand is both the stronger and more dextrous hand, but for Bucky his right hand is more dextrous while his left arm is stronger (we’ll just accept the science of that for now…). So I feel like this is something that Bucky has learned to adapt — he uses that left arm for tasks that require the mechanical strength or as a metal shield, while the right is still his instinctive go-to for fine coordination tasks.

How, why, and when Bucky learned to be ambidextrous not just for firearms but also for hand to hand combat is a delicious source of angst worth exploring.

Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson as text messages

Best/favourite bucky barnes headcanons? (Yours or others)

Thanks for the ask!!!

I think that one of my favorite 40s Bucky headcanons is that he was a pro of breaking into Steve’s place

Either by the window or by picking the front door lock (with sisters’ hair pin or something?) and would use this talent to drag Steve out on double dates or to make sure that he wasn’t wallowing in self pity (or just being his old introverted self) alone in his apartment before they moved in together a few weeks after Sarah’s death (time period in which Bucky repeatedly broke into Steve’s place to make sure he was still alive).

My favorite thing about this headcanon is that the neighbors were so used to Steve and Bucky’s bullshit that if they walked by and saw Bucky kneeling in front of the door picking the lock it was just another day of those silly lads’ adventures, they would just say hi and move on with their day and not worry too much about the trouble they would get into.

there are two sides of neurodivergency: socially awkward and awkwardly social.

I had a dream that I crashed a party with Sebastian Stan and his friends and after a while I somehow ended up next to him on a couch.

He put a hand on my thigh in a kinda possessive way.

Mine.

And suddenly all his friends were like “Welp, time to go”

But then I woke up.. and cried